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Improvement of spatial resolution in confocal microscope with shifted-focus phase filter
Author(s): Xiangdong Huang; Xiaoyan Xiang; Chongyang Wang
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Paper Abstract

A spatial super-resolution method is proposed based on the multiplicative character of confocal microscope’s amplitude point-spread functions. The axial resolution can be greatly improved by introducing a shifted-focus phase filters in illumination part of a confocal microscope. However, this improvement is accompanied by a decrease of transversal resolution. Thus, a super-Gaussian phase filter is optimized to control the focal shift and transversal intensity distribution in a confocal microscope. Numerical simulation results indicate that the proposed method is useful to obtain a significant improvement in the optical sectioning capacity.

Paper Details

Date Published: 6 March 2015
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 9446, Ninth International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurement and Instrumentation, 94463U (6 March 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2181493
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Xiangdong Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
Xiaoyan Xiang, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)
Chongyang Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology (China)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9446:
Ninth International Symposium on Precision Engineering Measurement and Instrumentation
Junning Cui; Jiubin Tan; Xianfang Wen, Editor(s)

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